a priority watchlist for summer

is it already upon us?

Wore my Hedonism shirt (Camille Rowe x Reformation collab) this week to embrace the summer solstice. What I want to watch during this season are films that center the unspoken magnets drawing people away and towards one another. Sensuality, ennui, malaise, etc. Simmer on these films, but don’t lose sight of what matters.

Pierrot le Fou (1965) — Jean-Luc Godard

• The lost tapes of JFK Jr. & Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy’s wedding footage — (1996) Billy Noonan on camcorder

• Woman in the Dunes (1964) — Hiroshi Teshigahara

• This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography (1999) — Jonas Mekas

• La Cocina (2024) — Alonso Ruizpalacios

• Highest 2 Lowest (2025) — Spike Lee

• City of God (2002) — Fernando Meirelles

• Brighter Summer Day (1991) — Edward Yang

• Play It As It Lays (1972) — Frank Perry

• Rear Window (1954) — Alfred Hitchcock

• Summer with Monika (1953) — Ingmar Bergman

• Taste of Cherry (1997) — Abbas Kiarostami

• The Headless Woman (2008) — Lucrecia Martel

• Death in Venice (1971) — Luchino Visconti

• Palestinian Women (1974) — Jocelyne Saab

• Less Than Zero (1987) — Market Kaniveska